Please describe your proposed solution

Access to capital is one of the biggest challenges in the technology environment worldwide (except in Silicon Valley).

To help the ecosystem and connect promising startups in need with investors interested in supporting innovative businesses, the Investor Network Community Platform was created.

Get to know the Cardano Blockchain Investor Network, which provides training and expands the network of participants.

Designed to bring together startups interested in attracting investments and investors (Investors, Founders, Venture Capitalists, Angel investors, Accelerators, Launchpads and Open Innovation), in an informal way, in the form of questions and answers.

A community that brings together those interested in investing and supporting innovative businesses in blockchain, cryptocurrencies, DeFi, Cardano, Tokens, CNFTs and with high potential for financial return.

Please define the positive impact your project will have on the wider Cardano community

A community that brings together individuals who want to invest in startups, to entrepreneurs who develop products and services with the potential for growth in scale.

MEASURE PROGRESS:

We will give the community some sort of progress report as we go along, in the form of a monthly news release on Cardano Feed, to measure the progress of our proposal.

We will also provide a panel to be disseminated within Cardano Feed, with the evolution of the project according to the Catalyst KPIs

• Number of registered investors: 1,000+
• View investor profiles: +5,000
• Diversity of types of investors: VC, Corporate Venture, Angel…
• Expand the project relationship network

AUDITABILITY

Success for this project can be defined:

• Contacts made between projects and investors
• Investments made and capital raised
• Testimonials and emails received about completed deals and partnerships made
• Validation of feedback and platform improvements

What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability? How do you intend to validate if your approach is feasible?

Our team has previously been approved in 5 projects on Catalyst and all projects were successfully completed and with a project closure report containing all proof of delivery (4 projects in Fund 8 and 1 project in Fund 9) and 2 projects in development in Fund 11.

Our team is composed of developers, UX / UI, Marketing, SEO, Marketing, Business and we developed the largest media coverage platform Cardanofeed.com, with more than 1,000,000 monthly visits and also the largest "Cardano Ecosystem" project directory (approximately 1,200+ projects).

Our team has already organized several official Cardano events for the community, including:

• Cardano at IX BITCONF 2022 - Exhibit Largest Blockchain LATAM BR (May, 2022)
• Cardano Summit São Paulo 2022 (November, 2022)
• Cardano Brasil Workshop CIP-1694 in São Paulo (July, 2023)
• LATAM CIP-1694 PanLatam Workshop - Punta Del Este / Uruguay (June, 2023)
• Member of INTERSECT MBO since July 2023
• DReps Brasil Workshop Governance in São Paulo (June, 2024)

We attended Cardano's global workshop on CIP-1694 Governance in person in Edinburgh UK (July, 2023).

What are the key milestones you need to achieve in order to complete your project successfully?

Milestone 1: Milestone 1

Cost: 30%

Month: 1 month

% Completion: 30%

(A) Start of platform architecture planning

(B) Gathering requirements and features

(C) Validation with key users

(D) Adjustments and adaptations in project

Milestone 2: Milestone 2

Cost: 30%

Month: 1 month

% Completion: 60%

(A) Creation of the website wireframe with UX/UI studies for the website

(B) Creation of the first version of the interface with some screens

(C) Validation of requirements and features and adjustments in the first version of the interface

(D) Design and UX validation with key users

Milestone 3: Milestone 3

Cost: 25%

Month: 1 month

% Completion: 85%

(A) Validation of requirements and features

(B) Platform validation with early investors

(C) Search contacts on Crunchbase

(D) Attracting the first investors active prospection of investors on Linkedin, investment fund sites and network

(E) Start of front-end programming

Final Milestone: Milestone Final

Cost: 15%

Month: 1 month

% Completion: 100%

(A) Start of front-end and back-end integration

(B) Inclusion of investors in the application database

(C) Completion of front-end and back-end integration

(D) MVP release as a beta version for early adopters

(E) Validation of feedback and platform improvements

(F) Official launch of the platform

(G) Communication with media partners, content portals, crypto specialist sites.

Who is in the project team and what are their roles?

Otávio Lima - <https://www.linkedin.com/in/otavioaclima/>

Founder &amp; CEO at Cardano Feed

Entrepreneur and passionate about technology, I started working at age 16 when I set up my first technology company and I never stopped. I founded some internet startups, some successful and others not so much. Started my business for 6 months in Silicon Valley/Silicon Valley, California (USA), in Rio de Janeiro and Belem.

I have practical and theoretical knowledge in B2B and B2C e-commerce, marketplace, digital marketing, UX/user experience, navigation tests, interface, information architecture, big data, data driven, data science, web metrics , BI (Business Intelligence), open innovation, crowdsourcing, ERP integrations, digital signage/digital signage and out-of-home digital media.

I actively participate in the cryptocurrency/blockchain, DeFi, cryptocurrency, enthusiast and fan of digital currencies such as Bitcoin (BTC), Cardano (ADA) and other cryptocurrencies.

Felipe Barcelos - <https://www.linkedin.com/in/felipebarcelospro/>

CTO at Cardano Feed

I started studying computers at the age of 9. Always looking for ways to solve problems and generate value. All of this took me on the journey of entrepreneurship and made me open my startup at the age of 18.

In recent years, my dedication has been to improve my technical expertise with Clean Code, refactoring, TDD, DDD, design patterns, clean architecture and languages like Javascript. Using frameworks like Next JS, Angular JS, Nest JS, Strapi and a few more.

Lucas Fernandes - <https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-fernandes-silva/>

Marketing Assistant

Founder of an Education startup in 2021 in São Paulo from an insight that our current teaching model is not aligned with the needs that the job market needs. Since then, my main purpose has become to create, share and connect experiences and knowledge with people around the world, offering new opportunities to develop the skills they will need for the professions of the future, today.

Today, my biggest motivation comes from showing that any dream is possible and that there are no limits for those who really dream big, have their feet on the ground and take one step at a time. We are certainly only at the beginning of a great journey.

Manage workload:

We currently have a team of 7 additional collaborators working together with our core project team. We were able to distribute and organize tasks and sprints within our development roadmap. And we also have a bank of technical professionals waiting to be hired according to the increase in projects.

Please provide a cost breakdown of the proposed work and resources

Detailed budget breakdown:

Tech:

Developer Front-end = $2,800 x 4 months = $11,200

Developer Back-end = $2,800 x 4 months = $11,200

Product Owner = $900 x 4 months = $3,600

Scrum Master = $900 x 4 months = $3,600

Designer UX/UI =$900 x 4 months = $3,600

SUBTOTAL: $33,200

Marketing &amp; Sales:

Marketing Assistant = $600 x 4 months = $2,400

Social Media = $800 x 4 months = $3,200

Marketing Budget = $1,700

SUBTOTAL: $7,300

Stack:

Amazon AWS Services Maintenance (1 year) = $1,600

Add-ons, notifications and endpoints = $900

Crawler and scraper APIs: $3,950

SUBTOTAL: $6,450

TOTAL: $46,950 x $0,47 ADA = ₳ 99,893

No dependencies.

How does the cost of the project represent value for money for the Cardano ecosystem?

To help the ecosystem and connect promising startups in need with investors interested in supporting innovative businesses, the Investor Network Community Platform was created.

A community that brings together those interested in investing and supporting innovative businesses in blockchain, cryptocurrencies, DeFi, Cardano, Tokens, CNFTs and with high potential for financial return.